THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 13, 2020 at 17:00 JST
Hiroyuki Kobayashi, second from left, president of Kobayashi Kako Co., and other company executives apologize for the tainting of its athlete’s foot remedy with a sleep-inducing component in Awara, Fukui Prefecture, on Dec. 12. (Naoki Hirano)
AWARA, Fukui Prefecture--A drug maker here apologized for a “grave error” after a woman in her 70s in the Tokyo metropolitan area died from taking its athlete's foot medication that had a sleeping drug mistakenly mixed in. [Read More]
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